Wine press



A. C. AND A. GALDI.

WINE PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-3. 1920.

' Patented Apr. 4, 1922.

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WINE PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED DEc.3. 1920.

Patented Apr. 4, 1922.

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A. 0; AND A. GA LDL' WINE PRESS.

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Toallwit'om it may concern:

Be it known that we, .ALFRED C. GA DI and ARMANI) GALDI,.-citizens ofthe United States, residing at .Somervill-e, in the county. of .Mid:dles'eX,- in' the State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement'in ine Presses ,.-of which the following is. aspecification, reference/being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to manually operated'p resses for usein themaking of wine, cider and the like, and our immediate object is toprovide, at a reasonable cost, a portable press which is speciallysuited for family use and in which the mechanical construction is suchthat great power may be produced by a ingle operator during the act ofcompressing the fruit. A further improvement con sists of special meanswhereby the jacket which encloses the said fruit may be readily removedfrom its operative position in order that the so called cheese orpummice may be removed from the press. Other advantages of improvementwill be specifically described and claimed hereinafter.

In order to explain'our invention clearly we have provided the annexeddrawings, in which the Figure 1 is an elevation of a press embodying ourpresent improvements and Figure 2 is a top or plan view of the same.Figure 3 is a detail view of one of the clamps by means of which the twopart jacket which surrounds. the press proper is latched together.Figure 4: is an elevation of the press stripped of its cylindricaljackets, showing particularly the manner of removing the two partpress-board 22, Figure 5 is a vertical,

central, sectional, view of the base plate 10.

Figure 6 is mainly an elevation of certain lever-operated mechanism bymeans of which increased pressure may be given to the pressboards 22after the initial pressure has been given through the screw 19, nut 21and hand wheel 20. Figure 7 is a plan viewof the mechanism shown in saidFigure 6 and Fig ure 8 is a detail, side, view of said mechanism.

In these drawings the numeral 10 indicates a substantial base-platewhich is here shown as mounted on a plurality of legs 11.

Removably mounted on said base-plate is an outer jacket 12, of sheetmaterial, which serves co-prevent the fruit juices from squirtinglaterally while the said fruit is being placed under pressure andlocated within, and concentric with, said outer jacket 12, is a ISpecification of Lettersiate'nt. Patented 4, 192 2. Application filedDecember 3, 1920. Serial No. 428,025.

two-part wall formed of vertical strips 13 which are suitably spacedapart and are connected by hoops 14:, the meetingends of said hoopsbeing connected by clamps that are best seen in- Figure 3 ofthedrawings. Each clampconsist essentially of a lug 15 on one of thehoop members 14 and :of a latch 16, that lSlhiI1gd .at 16 to theopposing end portion of the companion hoopmember and is .ad'apted'tobela-tched over the lug 15,1as will-be best n-nderstood by reference toFig ures 2 and 3 of the drawings. Formed in the base plate 10, betweenthe outer shell 12 and theslotted shell 13 is a groove 17 which isprovided to receive the fruit juices andto convey the same to adischarge spout 18. Rotatably mounted in the central portion of baseplate 10 is a screw 19 which has fixed to its upperend a hand wheel 20.andon its mid portion a threaded plate 2l1and located below saidthreaded plate is a two-part pressure board 22 which rests upon thecheese of fruit when the press is in operation.

NVhen it is desired to. usethe described press the outer hell 12 andslotted jack 13 are mounted on the base plate 10 and the screw 19 issuitably rotated to raise the plate 21 above the level of the tops ofthe slots 13. -The fruit is then poured into the basket formed bytheslotted jacket, the twopart pressure board 22 is placed on said fruit,the hand wheel 20 is suitably rotated to run the threaded plate 21 downuponthe' pressure board 22. Continued rotation of the screw 19 thenoperates to compress the fruit until the juices'are forced outward be-Ifeadily removed from the press.

7 In order that extraordinary power may be I applied to crew 19 we haveprovided supplemental mechanism which isbest seen in Figures 6., 7. and8 of the drawings, which we will now describe. Secured to the lower endof the screw 19 is a ratchet wheel or gear.

23 which is engaged by a double-end pawl2 l which is pivoted, at 25, ina lever 26 that is fulcruined at 27 in an extension 28 of the tweentheslots 13 and run down by gravity 7 into the trough 17 and aredischarged'thence through the spout 18 into a suitable recepout of thefruit the outer jacket 12 is removed 'plate. The cheese or pummice maythen be base plate 10. The numeral 29 denotes an upright lever which isfulcrumed at 30, on the extension 28; the lower end portion of the lever29 being connected with the outer end of the lever 24 in such mannerthat, when the upper end of the lever 29 is reciprocated, the lever 26will be rocked on its fulcrum and the pawl 24: will operate, through themedium of ratchet disc 23, to rotate the screw 19 with a step-by-stepmovement. We arethus enabled to apply extraordinary pressure to thepressboard 22, if desired, after the screw has been manually rotated bymeans of the hand Wheel 20.

Our described invention provides, at a reasonable costof construction, apress which is specially convenient for family use, which is eifectiveinits operation and results, and

which may be readily taken apart for the Q removal of the pummice andfor cleaning.

Having thus described our invention, we

claim r V p 1. In a press of the class referred to, a circumferentiallygrooved base, a screw centrally and rotatably mounted in said base, anouter shell and an inner slotted two-part jacket mounted on said.base,.ahand wheel,

jacket mounted on said base, a hand wheel fixed on said screw, means forlatching the two parts of said jacket together, and'supplementali meansfor rotating said screw.

ALFRED c. GALDI. ARMAND GALDI.

